On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Olaf Kirch wrote:
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:16:00 +0100 From: Olaf Kirch
To: hubba@db.com Cc: Bjorn Tore Sund , suse-security@suse.de Subject: Re: [suse-security] Enterprise server 8 not vulnerable to do_mremap()? Hi,
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:22PM +0000, Hubertus A. Haniel wrote:
It also apears that SLES8 is affected by what ever bug is on SuSE 8.1 ( I have seen this happen with SP3 recently ) and hence no kernel-source.rpm.
Right.
Are there any plans on getting this bug fixed and a kernel-source.rpm?
Of course. The tarball is just a stopgap measure until we've nailed down the rpm bug that causes the kernel-source install problems.
OK I can live with that - have you got an ETA for the proper fix?
I do not consider a tar file a very clean fix as rpm will no longer reflect what is on the box. Neither is it exactly easy to deploy tar files via auto yast and across a LOT of systems.
We felt reasonably comfortable with this solution because kernel-source is normally a package you rarely need to deplay across lots of systems. You don't even need it for normal development, only if you're a kernel hacker.
Yes - I would have thought that as well - unfortunately not everybody is under the same opinion so I have a lot of development systems with the kernel source. A lot of vendor supplied installation routines depend on the kernel source and it is one of my missions to re educate them which is sometimes not too easy. Best regards Hubba